Today we are going to work on some more contour drawing. Warm up at first with some blind contour sketches. Then we will take away the blind part of the contour drawing. You CAN look at your paper now, but DO NOT lift up your pencil. By "look at your paper," I mean glance to check position. Hopefully the blind contour drawing taught you to really study and look at what you are drawing. Your contours will look better if you look at your subject more than you look at your paper.

After you finish practicing contour drawing like above, move on to contour drawing where you can lift up your paper and lift your pencil. Pick several things to draw. Don't worry about shading, or coloring. Just draw the contours or outlines of the subject. Remember to LOOK at your subject. Again your contours will be more accurate if you draw what you observe instead of what you think it should be.

We saw lots of butterflies in our backyard that day so my daughter wanted to look up butterfly photos to draw. She can draw better butterflies from her imagination, but I was very proud of her drawing what she saw instead of trying to make it pretty. You can tell that she was really trying.

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Art 101: Line and Shape

Welcome to Art 101: Line and Shape! We will be covering the first two elements of art and design in this class. Each weekday in June I will post a mini lesson and activity/project. The class is open to all ages, all levels.